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Who'll Mind the Mainframes? / Few Students Learning to Run

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:13:24 -0400

By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | August 26, 2005

They're the grizzled, unglamorous veterans of the computing world,
middle-aged men and women who don't create best-selling computer games
or dazzling special effects for the movies. All they do is quietly run
the most important computer systems in the world.

They operate mainframe computers, the 'big iron' machines that run
businesses and governments all over the planet. Mainframes issue
Social Security checks, track credit-card purchases, and oversee the
nation's air-traffic network. They're immensely powerful computers,
and immensely reliable, routinely running around the clock for years
at a time.

But many mainframe operators have been at it for decades, and they've
begun to realize that their time is running out.

http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2005/08/26/wholl_mind_the_mainframes/

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